Sunday, January 31, 2021

Coworker Disregards IT Guy's Advice, Fiery Mess Ensues


Some people are more stubborn than others, and sometimes that frustrating stubborn stance goes hand in hand with acts of stupefying, blind ignorance. Take this IT dude's coworker who decided to have nothing short of a hysterical meltdown over what she viewed as a faulty printer. Well, one thing leads to another and before you know it, she's created a fire in the office. To make matters more dramatic, she decided to put the fiery papers on the counter instead of into the sink. It sounds like logic was a lacking quality from the beginning in this tale of tech support. 

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Text - r/talesfromtechsupport + u/TheClawsThatCatch · 3y • "It must be the pri.. Zen and the art of starting a fire in the lunchroom Long A man sits at a desk. In front of the man's desk is a window. Through the window he sees a woodpecker tapping on the windowsill. Tap, tap, tap. The sound is not entirely unpleasant and he savors its rhythm as the scent of fresh coffee wafts up from a cup on the desk. He is at peace.

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Text - A loud crash sends the woodpecker flying and snaps the man out of his morning reverie. It is the sound of an office chair colliding with the floor at maximum velocity. "Peace? NO PEACE!" it seems to cry. The man braces for that inevitable moment when an angry coworker will come forth and blame him for something. As if summoned, a raging bear of a woman huffs into the room. "The thermal printer won't print anything!" she roars, shaking a fistful of labels in the man's direction.

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Text - "Could you be more specific?" the man asks, entering the trance-like state of IT. "Nothing shows up on any labels I try printing!" she shouts, not satisfied with the lack of an immediate resolution. The man ponders this "information" for a few moments, keeping in mind the fact that this is the same coworker who destroyed two shredders and the last thermal printer. "All right, let's have a look." >>

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Text - He feeds a string of labels into the printer and for a moment is reminded of prayer flags strung from pole to pole. With a wistful sigh, he wonders who will answer his prayers in this moment. He unpauses the printer and watches it release labels as blank as the ones going in. This is indeed a problem. "Have you tested this with other labels?" He knows the answer but must ask anyway; the universe demands that ritual be observed. "Of course I have!" But this is false. "Have you really?" "I

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Text - The man takes a deep breath and searches the room for another roll of labels. He knows that as sure as the sun will rise, this coworker will deny all but the most forceful of examples. He cuts a few labels off the coworker's roll and cuts a few labels off a roll from a different box. "Come," he says, leaving the room. "Where are we going?" asks the coworker, following close behind. But the man does not answer, knowing his breath would be wasted. Instead, he grabs his coffee cup off his de

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Text - The two enter the lunchroom and the man sets his cup down next to the coffee pot. He removes the carafe and proceeds to fill his cup. "I followed you here for this?" shouts the coworker, but the man does not hear her for there is coffee. He sets the carafe down next to the coffee maker and presses the labels from the new roll onto the element for a moment, then he lifts them toward coworker's gaze. "They're black, so what?" says the coworker, now uncertain. >>

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Text - Without a word, the man presses the labels from the coworker's roll to the element to the count of three, for it is the holy number and must be observed in the interest of fire safety. As he expected, the labels remain blank. But the coworker does not accept this. "No!" she cries with eyes full of disbelief. "You must have done something wrong! It must be the printer!" The man smiles magnanimously as he replaces the carafe nd says, "Change must come from a different roll of labels. I will

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Text - This is rare, suspicious even, but the man is happy to be free of this burden and so accepts her gratitude. 15 minutes later, there is the smell of smoke and the sound of frantic yelling pouring out of the lunchroom. The man's boss approaches his desk as she has many times before, knowing that he is somehow indirectly but unprovably involved in this incident. "[Coworker] just set a bunch of labels in the lunchroom on fire, panicked and threw them onto the counter instead of into the sink.

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Dude's Nephew Starts A Housefire for TikTok, Wants Whole Family Out


On the one hand, it's nice to live in your own peaceful home without the risk of further fires. On the other hand, how much sympathy is the right amount to extend in order to keep your extended family off the streets? It's a bit of a rough one. Those kooky kids learn all sorts on the Tik Toks, like this dad who found out his daughter who filed her teeth for TikTok.

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Text - Posted by u/aitathrowawayfire 17 hours ago 2 11 24 S 4 12 AITA for asking my brother's entire family to move out because my nephew set my bathroom on fire for a tiktok? My (32F) brother (43M), his wife (40?F), and their two kids (9F and 15M) have been staying with me for a little over two weeks now because they lost their jobs due to coronavirus and were evicted. Four people is obviously a large addition, but I didn't want them to be homeless and they assured me it'd be a temporary stay.

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Text - Two days ago, my nephew set my bathroom on fire for a tiktok. From what he told me after, there's some kind of trend where you draw a shape on your mirror with hairspray and then you light it on fire, and it's supposed to go out on it's own without any damage. Well, his fire spread onto a nearby stack of towels and got out of control. We all had to evacuate, but luckily I live relatively close to a firestation so the damage wasn't that bad. My guest bathroom is scorched and will need repa

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Text - I think that my brother and SIL had to have been wildly negligible to allow this to happen, especially considering the lighter he used was my brother's, meaning he must have taken it from him at some point. I'm asking them to leave within the next week because I don't want to risk something of this nature happening again. They've apologized and asked me to reconsider because it was an accident, no one was hurt in the end, they'd be homeless if I kicked them out now, and to think of my nie

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Text - lainmelle Partassipant [3] 17 hours ago 2 3 2 6 NTA. He lit your house on fire for an internet trend. He's lucky he didn't kill someone. Sounds like someone dangerous to have in the house.

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Text - FunkyOrangePenguin Asshole Enthusiast [5] 17 hours ago · edited 11 hours ago 3 "I no longer feel safe living with them." NTA. That's the only reason you ever need. This isn't a candle that got out of hand situation - insurance doesn't cover intentional* dumbassery. It wasn't an accident and he could've killed someone. For a TikTok.

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Text - dreamsuggestor Partassipant [2] 17 hours ago O INFO Do you think the kid learned their lesson and won't do it again? & 26 More Do you think they will do something stupid again? These are the questions you should be asking yourself, not strangers on the internet. If the answer is no, he didn't learn, kick them out. If the answer is yes, I don't think he will screw up again, let them stay. Also, do you really think its 'wildly negligible' to have your 15 year old leave your sight for the 45

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Text - LFOSighting 14 hours ago & 2 Honestly amazed that everyone is saying NTA here. 92 YTA unless the parents did absolutely nothing to discipline their child after this. 15 y/os are dumb that is pure and simple. Him doing some stupid shit for a tiktok trend is not grounds for you to kick a family of 4 out onto the street with a week to sort out their affairs.

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Text - Plantmom-wineaunt 17 hours ago NTA-yeah the fact you aren't going to charge them for damages is incredibly nice of you. I get they lost their place and that sucks. But if they feel it's ok to set fires for a video then they'll do other stupid shit too.

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Text - swsvt Partassipant [3] 17 hours ago NTA. 15 is old enough to know better. We all did stupid crap at 15, but out of us didn't almost burn a house down. They are lucky you aren't making them cover your insurance deductible or pay for the repairs. Also, they are huge AHs for trying to use their daughter to guilt you. Maybe offer to let dad or mom and daughter stay if they're that desperate. The other parent and son can go stay with someone else. Its easier to house 2 people than 4.

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Text - Kiianamariie 13 hours ago I'm honestly shocked at all these responses... I would say YTA. This is certainly an extreme circumstance, but he's a fifteen year old and that's prime age for making stupid mistakes. Not to mention he's a fifteen year old in a pandemic, who lost his home, whose parents dont have jobs, and it's easy to forget the mental toll that is likely taking on him. What he did was stupid and dangerous, but he may have been following a trend as a way of connecting with other

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Text - haven't taught their son about ramifications for stunts like this, but honestly, it sounds like your family is under a lot of unreasonable and unfair stress right now and that it was the last thing on their mind to police their son's lighter and TikTok use. Unless you have other reasons for not feeling safe with their son, YTA here. He did something stupid, but this type of stunt would not happen again from any poor, reasonable 15 year old boy who knows that a stupid mistake would literal

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Text - -CherryByte- 11 hours ago YTA. Holy shit, everyone! It was an accident. The kid was told that the hairspray would go out, no damage. 15 is still young enough to think stupid shit like that. I'd imagine he's pretty embarrassed right now. Either way, you shouldn't kick out a whole family onto the street in the middle of a pandemic because a 15 year old made a mistake. His parents saying “it was an accident" is also because they're probably embarrassed as all hell too. As long as your nephew

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Text - no_good_namez Professor Emeritass [70] 17 hours ago Wow that sucks all around. Nephew is an idiot, but it's outrageous to assume the parents were negligent, teenagers get up to far worse on their own. Of course the fire could have been much worse, but these are heavy consequences for him to bear. No judgment, just hope that things improve for all of you and that someone else is willing to take in this family if you no longer can.

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Design Failures That Could Use Some Rethinking


Everyone wants to leave work early, but sometimes it takes a few design fails to get there. Ill conceived products, idiotic font choices, and some less-than-mastery of photoshop get people into some weird situations. Adding to that, the pesky thing with reality is that sometimes things don't fit where you want them to. Enough "not my job" moments of failure have proven that.

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Yellow - EXIT herworld

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Human - ELITE SUTE UTE

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Property

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Facade - NO SWAP MEET PARKING PIZZ TIME Prado Center NO STUDENT PARKING Drads Cee NO TENANTDR. EPE IN INOTICE EN OPEN R223 CALL FOR YOUR ORDER 323-264-2224

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Window

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Yellow - EMERGENCY TELEPHONE Dial 999 for Coastguard, Police, Fire or Ambulance BT

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Baby carriage

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Property - "КОМПЛЕКТ" Банко

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Vehicle - AASS M SOL LEWITT TARYN The Lure of the BRDVIRL

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Total Strangers People Will Never Forget


It's weird that we're surrounded by people all the time, but it's against social convention to have a meaningful relationship with any of them. As rare as it is, people will take time out of their lives to make more of an impact than being just a face in the crowd. Some of these interactions are strange encounters, others are wholesome, but the one thing they all are is memorable.

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Text - badass_panda 22 hours ago · edited 13 hours ago 容4 When I was a broke-as-sin 18 year old trying to make ends meet, I had a side hustle providing IT support for households (like a 18 & 129 More geek squad sort of thing). In practice, I would mostly set up computers for elderly people and the tech illiterate, and teach them how to use them ... Or get them out of technical binds (usually with printers) by googling on their behalf. This elderly Korean gentleman hired me to set up his new comp

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Text - Over the course of about a month I came back four times, worked with him, had a lovely meal, and he would tell me about his family and his kids (he was so proud of his daughter, who was about to finish her residency and become a pediatrician). By the end of the month he was pretty comfortable on the PC, and I thanked him profusely for how kind he was and how ridiculously he'd overpaid me. He told me I reminded him of his son (who was estranged for some reason -- I didn't press), and that

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Text - TurdsforNipples 23 hours ago 2 98 The lady who told me I looked great in blue, and that it was clearly my color. 35 & 6 More To this day if I'm deciding between shirts to buy, or wear, I'll go with blue. That compliment was about fifteen years ago at least.

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Text - Back2Bach 23 hours ago 2 4@9 3 4 E8 My lost wallet was returned in the mail. The anonymous stranger sent it back at their own expense ($9.75 postage) with all the money, credit cards, drivers license, and other items intact - nothing was missing. A note enclosed read: "Please do something kind for a stranger whenever you have the opportunity."

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Text - fla_man 23 hours ago 23 24 S 3 2 I was driving down south with my girlfriend, we have a blowout so I put on the donut. The donut blows out while we're exiting the very next exit. So there we are maybe 19 and at least a hundred miles from anyone we know at a gas station in the middle of nowhere. I'm thinking on what to do next, and probably looked like there was something wrong so this older man offered to help. He drives me 20 or so minutes to a junk yard to get a cheap tire. Then he puts

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Text - Text - Acceptable_Medicine2 23 hours ago 9 4 32 5 Took a train to NYC by myself for the first time. I was 18. Second time to NYC, first time ever on a train. I told the kiosk lady that I'd never been on a train before and asked if she might give me a quick run down of what to do. Another train station employee was nearby and was so interested and amused that I was taking a train for the first time and was alone. He walked me through what to do, down to the smallest detail. No judgement, n

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Text - Text - ThadisJones 22 hours ago 3 3 3 3 The foreign exchange student and his parents who walked past my park bench on campus and dropped his passport. I chased after them to return it and his mom started screaming at me in broken English like "Why you have his papers? Why you steal his papers?" while the kid and his father looked like they were going to die from embarrassment.

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Text - Text - FishNchips72 20 hours ago ,9 & 27 More When I was super overweight, I was just starting to workout somewhat regularly. Being morbidly obese at the gym is terrible - I have never felt more eyes on me before in my life. I was on a treadmill, grinding out some inclined walk/ light jogging, and a super fit girl got on the machine next to me (this was all pre-COVID). She did a short warm-up, and before she got off the treadmill she turned to me and gave me a high five and told me to kee

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Text - seabass4507 18 hours ago When my wife and I first started dating, we were walking into a Trader Joe's holding hands. This elderly woman looks at us and says rather loudly "CUTE COUPLE ALERT!!" My wife and I still laugh about it, it's been 12 years at least.

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Text - Text - alwaysiamdead 22 hours ago .3 3 S 2 & 8 More My son was a week old, and had to go to the doctor. I had severe early onset post partum depression, and I hadn't slept more than an hour at a time since his birth. I locked my keys, phone, and son in the car. This incredibly wonderful older couple calmed me down, called CAA, parked beside my car and sat with me until the tow truck came and unlocked the car. The tow driver refused payment. I will never forget those three people.

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Text - Text - Not_an_elk 20 hours ago e6 3 5 87 I was waiting for my appointment with an optometrist when an old haitian man walked in with a grocery bags.tye receptionist knew him so he walked up to me and proceeded to ask me riddles. When I finally got the answer to one he reached into his bag and gave me a snickers then left. To this day I'm really curious as to what would motivate a man to become a wholesome riddler.

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Text - Text - CerementBag 22 hours ago a 3 2 An Irish guy (not in Ireland) who spoke with such a strong accent that I couldn't make out a single word. To this day I question whether it was just a prank.

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Text - Text - Imanol_Canada 23 hours ago · edited 19 hours ago I was in the laundry with my dog and an old man with his dog approached, our pets met and the man said "When Jesus said love your neighbour as you love yourself, only the dogs understood it" After that we had an small chat, then he left and I have never seen him again. I will never forget that man

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Text - Text - -dula-peep- 22 hours ago 9 e2 8 Was on a solo trip to Amsterdam last year, partying it up as one does. Was at a bar having a few drinks, and a gorgeous British woman a seat or two over from me (mid-20s) grabs my arm (I'm a very gay looking man by the way) and starts going on about how good it is to see me. I got the hint and noticed an older guy bothering her and her friend, played along with them as their long lost BFF until he left. We ended up spending the rest of the night bar

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Text - Text - 96 34 E5 When I was in elementary school I fell through Omenaa 20 hours ago ice. A man who was walking his dog saw me fall and rushed to the shore. I frantically swam back to the shore, I was only about 5 meters in to the pond so it wasn't a long way, but it took some with soaked winter clothes. When I reached the shore, the man pulled me up by my jacket. It would've been difficult to get up, as there was a steep incline. I didn't thank him, because I was in shock, but I bet he kno

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Text - Text - TheRealOcsiban 19 hours ago I was doing tech support and my customer was so happy with my service she offered to marry me to her daughter. I politely declined.

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Text - Text - Just-STFU 20 hours ago 2 59 & 18 More There are a few. The biggest one was when I was homeless and asked a lady for the time. She told me and asked if I wanted to share her sandwich and the paper. She was the first person to treat me like a person, like I was worth something in years. I never got her name but I will remember her fondly for the rest of my life. I know that she'll never, ever know what a difference she made in my life. Just that one simple thing she did and the human

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Text - Text - Fuginshet 22 hours ago 3 2 I was at a pool bar at a resort in Jamaica. A British lady next to me asked me the most random question, which turned into a nearly three hour conversation. The question: What is a redneck? It was a lot more difficult to explain than I thought it would be. I didnt realize that was an unknown concept to a lot of Brits.

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Text - Text - Orphan007 22 hours ago I was walking on the street and a person came to me and said if I had any money. I gave him some. He looked at the money, told me it was sinful, and returned it to me. It was really weird. The money was my hard-earned money.

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Text - Text - blakee42069 21 hours ago E I was on a tram and I didn't have a ticket and the ticket inspectors came on. I got asked to have my ticket seen and I said I "couldn't find it on me" and he said he'll come back so I can look for it. There was a stranger sat on the seat behind me who had a ticket, he gave it to me and he got off at the next stop. Guy gave me his ticket so I wouldn't be issued a fine.

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Text - Text - TheLaudMoac 22 hours ago · edited 17 hours ago Standing in line waiting to board a plane home in Italy. Guy with bleach Blonde hair in a leather jacket starts telling me about how he's going home after living in Italy teaching girls to speak English from the back of a van for several years, just about to get on the plane and a security person points at him, snaps a rubber glove onto their hand and then beckons him over with their newly gloved finger. He never made the flight.

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Text - Text - _fbn_ 22 hours ago S Went on a 3 day trip to Berlin and saw 2 women having a heated argument. It ended with one of them doing a cartwheel and throwing up her middlefingers, then running away.

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Text - MrsYoungie 19 hours ago The man who saw hubby and I struggling to put our newly purchased snowblower into our (too small) car. He put it into his pick up truck and followed us home and unloaded it onto our drive. It was that moment that I realized that people are kind - and that we were officially old pathetic geezers.

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Text - Wiewsywoo 19 hours ago I was visiting Paris and a woman on the subway bumped past me so hard that her baguette scratched my arm enough to draw blood. I'm not kidding. A French woman cut me with her baguette.

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